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Art Conservation

Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures

Tolles E. Leroy, Kimbro Edna E., Ginell William S.

ISBN: PB: 9780892365883, Getty Publications, March 2006
160 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 100 black&white illus.

This is a companion volume to "Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adode Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adode Project", and it offers guidance for planners, architects and engineers in the retrofitting of historic and culturally signific...

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History of Art

Pontormo The Halberdier

Cropper Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780892363667, Getty Publications, March 2006
136 pp., 23.5x19.2 cm, 18 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Much has been written about the identity of the sitter in this portrait. In 1568, Vasari noted that "Pontormo" painted a beautiful work, a portrait of Francesco Guardi. In 1612, however, the name of Cosimo i de' Medici was attached to a description o...

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History of Art

Perfect Likeness Portrait Miniatures from the Cincinnati Museum of Art

Aronson Julie, Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300115802, Yale University Press, February 2006
344 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm

Diminutive marvels of artistry and fine craftsmanship, portrait miniatures reveal a wealth of information within their small frames. They can tell tales of cultural history and biography, of people and their passions, of evolving tastes in jewellery,...

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Contemporary Art

Picasso Architecture and Vertigo

Green Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300104127, Yale University Press, February 2006
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 colour images, 60 black&white illus.

The starting point of this exciting new exploration of Picasso is not his life but his work, which is revealed as a series of interventions in the troubled history of early twentieth-century Europe. Christopher Green shows how these interventions are...

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Photography

Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools

Ross Judith Joy, Reynolds Jock

ISBN: HB: 9780300115840, Yale University Press, February 2006
88 pp., 30.1x27.3 cm, 67 tritone illus.

Acclaimed for the emotional acuity of her portraits, Judith Joy Ross is an accomplished photographer whose work is found in the collections of America's major museums. This exquisitely produced book focuses on one of Ross's most personal series to da...

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Photography

Perfect Medium Photography and the Occult

Cheroux Clement, Fischer Andreas, Apraxine Pierre, Canguilhem Denis, Schmit Sophie

ISBN: HB: 9780300111361, Yale University Press, September 2005
288 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 280 colour illus.

In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substant...

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History of Art

Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman...

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History of Art

Paper Museums The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800

Zorach Rebecca, Rodini Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780935573404, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, April 2005
168 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 9 colour plates, 113 halftones

As relatively inexpensive, transportable, and storable objects, prints occupied an important place in early modern European culture. Many of them reproduced other works of art and we now call them "reproductive" prints. They were often considered to...

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History of Art

Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones

The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...

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History of Art

Peasants, Warriors, and Wives Popular Imagery in the Reformation

Moxey Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780226543925, University of Chicago Press, April 2004
180 pp., 22.9x21.6 cm, 58 line drawings

In "Peasants, Warriors, and Wives", Keith Moxey examines woodcut images from the German Reformation that have often been ignored as a crude and inferior form of artistic production. In this richly illustrated study, Moxey argues that while they may n...

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